Tron Legacy. Awesome visuals and stunning sound track: Daft Punk’s best. And fabulous cameo by Michael Sheen as Castor / Zeus. Blu Ray.
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It is fantastic. It’s a great example of how style done right can outshine substance.
The degree to which it is nonsense is matched only by the visual perfection and fun.
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The very definition of ‘fantasy’!
Great soundtrack, but the nonsense aspect just leaves me cold.
I’m quite happy to put up with nonsense and look at Olivia Wilde.
It’s not like it’s Transformers or something like that where it’s impossible to watch long enough to even see the opening sequence.
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A world of ISOs is a dream of perfection. Flynn implores us to imagine the beauty of peace, wisdom and the eradication of disease, embodied in Quorra. If bio-digital jazz is a load of tosh, then I’m very happy to be a daft old punk.
Well the reason Tron Legacy works is the same reason that The Creator doesn’t work. It at least paints most AI as malevolent existential threats created by a very smart but short sighted “tech bro”. Whereas, The Creator tried to paint them as deserving of rights at the most tone deaf time possible. I remember watching The Creator and just thinking of the AIs, “the kid must die. Wipe them out. All of them”. Which obviously was not what the director was going for.
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At last - a decent film from the Marvel Universe. A genuine antihero superhero film. Genuinely different from the usual dross. V good sfx, decent script and, above all, a fine performance from Florence Pugh who can make any old tosh decent IMO
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Journey to the far side of the sun.
From 1969 a Gerry Anderson feature film with superb special effects that still stand the test of time.
We see a number of the cast a year later in UFO.
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I was having a down in the dumps day a week ago when I stumbled on a documentary that is often praised as the real This is Spinal Tap… Anvil. The Story of Anvil. I’m not a Heavy Metal fan, but this documentary is so engagingly funny and sad that I’d readily watch it again. Just be sure to turn it up to 11.
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Slammed by critics in 1970 for taking no continuity with several preceding Hammer Dracula features - instead taking perhaps a more reflect on Bram Stoker.
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Hellraiser
A little bit overrated. The effects haven’t aged well in places. The lack of budget for the location shows. But I’ll put this in the flawed masterpiece category.
The Cenobites are so more interesting than the silly plonkers they are torturing.
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As part of my weekend stuck at home with a stinky cold, I’ve just watched this. Didn’t know quite what to expect but I thought it was extraordinary - a terrific film. Even though I wasn’t there it gives a real sense of a time and a place and a country on the verge of huge change. Great support cast, particularly Ed Norton as Pete Seeger. But hats off to Timothee Chalamet - utterly believable (I’ve now forgiven him for Dune because of this). He manages to successfully transition from New York ingenu to the complex Bob we now know ( including contrarian a*shole) while still maintaining that core ‘unknowability’. Great music as well. Highly recommended
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
If there is an example of how times have changed and attention spans have shrunk, this is it. Sat down to watch it with my kids. They complained constantly. “This is so boring.” And, “Nothing happens.” And, “What?!!! That was just the opening sequence? There is still the whole movie to go?” And the nail in the coffin, “We’ll do homework instead. This is unbearably boring.”
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I recognize it from my brothers kids who can’t watch a movie too. One of them said literally to me: ‘please remove me from this most boring house ever’ and then I realized that he was quoting the Lego Ninjago style series.
I have no answer and only an observation. My elder kids (16 , 18) can sit an evening and watch lotr or Star Wars without problems.
My kids can easy watch a three hour movie if it was made in the last decade. You know, when filmmakers actually factored in that people have no patience for pacing and unless you flood them you lose their attention to a smartphone.
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We watched this a couple of nights ago. Entrancing and very beautiful. It’s very much not just a children’s film.
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Tell No One on Blu-ray. Great film that keeps you gripped and guessing all the way. Oh yes, and it has Kristin Scott Thomas… 
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